What are entities in Magento 2?

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Entities in Magento 2 are like:

Product is an entity?
Order/Sale is an entity?
Customer/Users/Clients is an entity?
etc??

Where can I find a list of all entities? Are they declarated in the DB?

For example in eav_attribute table I can see a column entity_type_id that in a default Magento2 installation goes from 1 to 4, these number represents entities?

PD Taking in mind that eav_entity is empty in a default installation

score 20 · Accepted Answer · answered May 23 '16 at 08:26

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The eav_attribute table's column entity_type_id is mapped to the eav_entity_type table, you can see the entities there.

answered May 23 '16 at 08:26

Atish Goswami

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FYI, order & related entities are not of EAV types. – MagePsycho May 23 '16 at 13:59
@MagePsycho Thats very true, still they are present in the eav_entity_type table, but not sure why.... – Atish Goswami May 24 '16 at 07:03
@AtishGoswami just curious, why quote is not part of this table. – Bhupendra Bisht Jun 17 '21 at 13:21

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered May 23 '16 at 08:22

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Well, englishly speaking, every object is an entity right ?

But I reckon you're referring to an entity as the EAV (Entity - Attribute - Value) implementation of Magento.

So to answer your question, I reckon you should have a look at the eav_entity_type table which lists the following entities with their entity model, table and attribute model:

1: Customer
2: Customer Address
3: Category
4: Product
5: Order
6: Invoice
7: Credit Memo
8: Shipment

answered May 23 '16 at 08:22

Raphael at Digital Pianism

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I just notice that, ty for yor response – Gianni Di Falco May 23 '16 at 08:23
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FYI, order & related entities are not of EAV types. – MagePsycho May 23 '16 at 13:59
@MagePsycho yes I know, how funny is that that there are still referenced in this table. – Raphael at Digital Pianism May 23 '16 at 14:00
Yeah it's all about legacy modes :) – MagePsycho May 23 '16 at 14:00
hi @ Raphael at Digital Pianism, @MagePsycho is there any specifi entity type for product attributes or it is same entity as Catalog_product??I am not certain knowldge on – Bibhu Asish Sep 25 '17 at 15:41

score 3 · Answer 3 · answered May 23 '16 at 08:22

I just notice it (and if it helps to someone)

The table eav_entity_type is where magento2 entities are, for example:

mysql> SELECT entity_type_id, entity_type_code FROM eav_entity_type;
+----------------+------------------+
| entity_type_id | entity_type_code |
+----------------+------------------+
|              3 | catalog_category |
|              4 | catalog_product  |
|              7 | creditmemo       |
|              1 | customer         |
|              2 | customer_address |
|              6 | invoice          |
|              5 | order            |
|              8 | shipment         |
+----------------+------------------+
8 rows in set (0,00 sec)

What are entities in Magento 2?

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